FTX US collects $ 400 million in Serie A, the evaluation of the trading platform is now $ 8 billion

FTX US collects $ 400 million in Serie A, the evaluation of the trading platform is now $ 8 billion

On January 26, the crypto-asset exchange FTX US announced that it collected $ 400 million in a round of financing in the AR Serie A, which comes from investors such as Softbank, Paradigm and MultiCoin Capital. Serie-A investment in FTX US increases the postal rating of the trading platform based in the USA to $ 8 billion.

ftx US announces capital procurement of $ 400 million $

according to parent company ftx collects a before Three months the trading platform ftx us US dollars applied in a Serie A financing round. The FTX Us based in Chicago was introduced in 2020 and over the course of last year the stock exchange indicated that its user base has grown by 52 % compared to the previous quarter. Data show that FTX US has seen $ 270.2 million or $ 7,139 in the last $ 24 hours bitcoin in commercial volume.

The 400 million dollar investment in FTX Us came from investment companies such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Temasek Holdings, Multicocoin Capital and Paradigm. "What this increase means for us is that we officially establish ourselves on stage of the greatest competitors of cryptocurrency exchanges in the USA and signal the world that we will continue to expand very quickly," said FTX President Brett Harrison in a statement.

The parent company of the stock exchange has made in the last 12 months with one Focus on entertainment and the sports industrial . In mid-January, the company ftx ventures, to the introduction of To support blockchain and web3 with capital of $ 2 billion. In addition, recently FTX US with monumental sports entertainment (Mse) and became an exclusive crypto exchange and not fungbler token partners.

Harrison informed the press that the recently acquired capital of $ 400 million would be used to enlarge the user base of the stock exchange and to attract top talents from the industry. The US President of FTX said he was aiming to expand his workforce to 100 employees. "By having this capital, we are able to be competitive and hire the best people," Harrison concluded in the announcement.

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